Wizz Air UK (W9/WUK) has confirmed it is adding 5 new routes from London Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW). The new routes start from 7th August and include 4 Spanish and 1 Greek destination. Based at London Luton, Wizz Air UK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of its Hungarian parent airline, Wizz Air. [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) will begin flights from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Poznan, Poland (POZ/EPPO) later this year. The route to Poznan has been one of biggest un-served routes from Manchester Airport based on local demand. Ryanair will operate the route twice-weekly from 27th October. Ryanair’s Eimear Ryan stated: [read more]
The latest Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 to be sent to pasture is G-VAST which will leave Manchester Airport at 11:00 local time this morning for a short flight down to St Athan, South Wales. The aircraft, known as “Ladybird”, has been with Virgin Atlantic since it was delivered in 1997. [read more]
Doncaster Sheffield Airport will reportedly be closed for flights until after 0600hrs tomorrow due to a small runway excursion by a Boeing 747 Freighter. No one was injured in the incident, which happened as the aircraft was backtracking (taxiing) along the runway after landing, but the aircraft will take some [read more]
Sources close to Virgin Group, which owns Virgin Atlantic, have said that Virgin Atlantic is set to announce a resuce package worth £1.2bn later today. According to the sources, the money is coming from stakeholders and investors already involved with the airline and will involve a restructuring of the airline [read more]
Perhaps the most anticipated flight simulator game of recent times finally has a release date! Microsoft Flight Simulator, the first new flight simulator from Microsoft since 2006, is being released on 18th August 2020 and is available to pre-order now at the Windows or Xbox Stores The new game uses [read more]
The union representing Easyjet pilots in the UK has warned its member that they are “on the frontline for the very soul of the airline” as it accuses Easyjet of not acting in good faith. The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) gave the warning to members in a letter from [read more]
Ryanair dealt an embarrassing blow to Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford today when it rejected calls from him to not operate flights from Cardiff Airport until he relaxes travel in Wales. Mr Drakeford had written to the airline insisting that the flights to Malaga and Faro should not go ahead [read more]
Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA/EGCN) is officially open again from today as Wizz Air resumes operations from the Northern regional airport. Wizz Air will operate 3 flights from the airport today to Riga, Krakow and Vilnius first flight leaving at 17:55 local time. The airport has put in place strict measures [read more]
Pakistan International Airlines (PK/PIA) has been banned from flying into Europe after the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) suspended their authorisation to operate for 6 months. The move comes after it emerged that hundreds of pilots flying for the airline had “dubious” licences with over 260 being suspended. A spokesperson [read more]
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